Feminine Chaos

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe discuss peeing in coffeeshops, crying on airplanes, Jews on Netflix, and moms who murder. LINKS: Phoebe, previously, on Nobody Wants This (season 3 review to come Monday November 2): The ‘shiksa’ plot: Phoebe Maltz Bovy reviews ‘Nobody Wants This’ ‘Nobody Wants This,’ an awkwardly-timed infomercia...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe discuss the latest in local wildlife, a new novel that may or may not be about Natalie Portman, and a new movie that may or may not be about Elizabeth Holmes’s boyfriend’s ding-dong. LINKS: Unherd on the Cusk book: A novelist’s dark portrait of Natalie Portman

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe welcome Sarah Hepola, author of The Only Thing There Is to Want, to talk about memoirs, men, and the human heart in conflict. LINKS: Buy Sarah’s book! Or we’ll hurt you!

Kat and Phoebe discuss the latest bad news from Cornell, the plight of Jews in publishing, and one man’s quest to turn an ordinary ménage à trois into the biggest, gayest orgy in the Ivy League. This is our free episode for the month of October. LINKS: What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe discuss a viral rape outrage, grifting for Palestine, and the lesbian bar meltdown heard round the world. LINK: Kat’s advice column: https://web.archive.org/web/20150929084034/http://community.sparknotes.com/2013/01/07/auntie-sparknotes-i-regret-my-drunken-hookup Two Jews, three apologies: Avi Lew...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe discuss the return of Sydney Sweeney discourse, Lena Dunhan’s baby surprise, and Nikole Hannah-Jones’s viral essay about sending her only child to a bad school. LINKS:

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe discuss mistrials, misogynists, and the mission impossible of trying to make liberalism sexy again. LINKS: She Killed Her Three Children. Is She Guilty? Like so - Close-reading the reruns with Phoebe Maltz Bovy Kat, noted conservative lingerie influencer: Have Conservatives Taken Sexy Back?

Kat and Phoebe discuss the London substacker stalking her neighbor’s home renovation, and the Met’s cancellation of tiny, angry, wildly anti-Semitic fashion icon John Galliano. LINKS: Have We Forgotten How to Decorate Like Normal People? John Galliano Withdraws From Met Museum Show After Backlash Critics Blast Metropolitan Museum’s Plan to Honor John Galliano - The New York Times The Metropolitan...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe attempt an archaeology of wokeness and look forward to the next installment, a.k.a. Woke 2: Electric Boogaloo. Also: fabulists, plagiarists, and a wildlife update about two ugly birds in love. LINKS: On the phases of woke: AOC on Woke 1.0

Kat and Phoebe discuss the latest in raccoon sightings, Phoebe’s European shopping adventures, and Kat’s brush with local law enforcement. LINKS: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit femchaospod.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe discuss Labubu consultants, bike camps, childhood nostalgia, and waning attention spans. LINKS: When One Nanny Isn’t Enough, ‘CEO Parents’ Hire a Whole Team - WSJ

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe discuss the lingerie of the long 2010s, the publishing industry’s Jewish problem, and the best place to hide your heirlooms and jewels (in a paper bag emblazoned with the words “DEAD RACCOON INSIDE.”) LINKS: A Statement to Our Community - PEN America ‘A Silent Moratorium’ - PEN America A Free-Spee...

Thank you Phoebe Maltz Bovy , Mark Sundstrom , Bob , TheNuclearBlonde , Dave , and many others for tuning into my live video with Rafael Frumkin ! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit femchaospod.substack.com/subscribe

Kat and Phoebe discuss Ozempic (the new lobotomy!), American patriotism (the new Zionism!), and the sad, strange, entirely predictable downfall of Graham Platner (we told you so!). LINKS: The Drug That Made Me Want Less Previously, on Platner: Kat’s reporting on death doulas: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit femch...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com In a special episode to make up for last month’s shortfall and last week’s forgotten shoutouts, Kat and Phoebe discuss review-tagging, hate-following, and why one extremely tall politician was chased away from a trans pride parade. LINKS: Is heterosexuality hopeless? | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe discuss the Bluesky backlash against Phoebe’s book, the Twitter suffrage discourse that made it feel, ever so briefly, like 2017 again, and the big, Gay link between the two. Also, a rare cat cameo! LINKS:

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe turn their attention to young men and their trends, from vegetable haircuts to looksmaxxing to sending ill-considered (read: wildly anti-Semitic) emails to people who want to give them jobs! LINKS: Do Gen Z women actually find the popular male “broccoli” hairstyle attractive? : r/GenZ Broccoli hai...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe discuss the character of aspiring senator and porta-potty masturbator Graham Platner, the romantic philosophy of the horror film Obsession , and what happens when an unrequited affection meets an immovable incel. LINKS: Graham Platner, haver of normal ones: Obsession, for men:

Phoebe airs her grievances vis-a-vis being reverse scooped by a certain New York Times article, Kat discusses the contours of her post-cancellation comeback, and everyone agrees that if that guy actually was turned into a newt, that was pretty bad and he probably deserves an apology. LINKS: Phoebe actually does want it in the newspaper that she’s mad: Kat’s cursèd cancellation: This is a public ep...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe discuss the fallout over an expose of the finances of the bestselling author of the new memoir, Strangers. LINKS: Was I Married to a Stranger? - The New York Times Jessica Winter at the New Yorker has some receipts: What’s Missing from Belle Burden’s “Strangers” | The New Yorker Emily Gould’s defe...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe discuss the latest in Jewish canine sexual aggression, a vintage Lena Dunham controversy, and a buzzy new novel that has all the tradwives talking. LINKS: Come see us in Toronto! And buy Phoebe’s book ! Bad dogs, if true: The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians - The New York Times Kat on...

Kat and Phoebe are joined by special guest Suzy Weiss to discuss the lemon-stealing literati, the dubious sex appeal of leftist Twitch streamers, the friends who take Ozempic without our permission, and what the youths think about the personal essay industrial complex. LINKS: Come celebrate Phoebe’s book launch in Toronto! Opinion | ‘The Rich Don’t Play by the Rules. So Why Should I?’ - The New Yo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe are joined once again by the inimitable Leigh Stein for a discussion of the latest in memoirland. LINKS:

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe discuss the latest in raccoon penis politics, miniskirts after 40, and the underbelly of the femosphere. LINKS: Anti-Trans Health Secretary RFK Jr. Once Cut Off Dead Raccoon’s Genitals in Front of His Kids | Them Goldilocks can’t find a skirt The angry young women who don’t want to date men No hoo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit femchaospod.substack.com Kat and Phoebe discuss heteronormativity, Playboy magazine, and Torontonian raccoons making a sexual spectacle of themselves. LINKS: Buy our books! The Last Straight Woman: On Desiring Men How to Survive in the Woods: A Novel Coon Dick Toothpick Raccoon Baculum Penis Bone Toothpick for 1 From USA # STP - Etsy Ag...